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@BisonHero said:

@hoossy said:

@Red said:

Considering so many games deal with the identity of your character and going against what it assumed by the player, I was wondering if there are any games in which it is revealed you were actually playing as a robot the whole time, in a Blade Runnerian twist. Does such a game exist? Will such a game exist? Is such a game a good idea?

wait... how is it Blade Runnerian? Main character was human... and the androids knew they were android... am I forgetting something?

There are one or two aspects in Blade Runner that suggest Deckard might be a replicant. It's left fairly ambiguous.

There is a scene in the movie however with pretty blunt evidence that Deckard is in fact a replicant. All the replicants in the movie give away orange reflections in their eyes, and there's a scene where you can see this in Deckard's eyes as well. The scene is subtle, but doesn't leave Deckard's identity open to much interpretation.

Even without the expansion, Baldur's Gate 2 alone is like 100-150 hours if you touch some of the side-quests. So the Baldur's Gate series is going to keep you occupied for most of the summer. Be sure to get the modification for BG1 that uses the BG2 engine though. The original ran in 640x480 and BG2 in 800x600. Both games hold up expectionally well today.

Don't know about KOTOR. It was good back when it came out, but not sure how it stacks up today. It's similiar to how Dragon Age Origins work mechanically, so it should be fine. I prefered the sequel, since KOTOR has a really slow start.

Jade Empire is probably the worst RPG Bioware put out. The world and atmosphere is kind of nice, but the RPG elements are really weak. Which doesn't leave much of a game left.

Don't remember much about NWN. I thought it was OK at the time. Not exactly the 3D Baldurs Gate or Icewind Dale I was hoping for. Maybe because I wasn't ready to leave the old isometric perspective yet. Hard to go back to and play again, having tried with NWN2.

Dragon Age Origins is actually one of my favorite Bioware games. It has the scope and ambition of Baldur's Gate but without the terrible Forgotten Realms fiction. Of course it's not as epic as BG1 or 2, but you don't see that kind of RPG anymore. So it's closest I got to the old Bioware.

Metal Slug. Want to try and finish it without taking any damage some day. I usually get to the last level, then I die 3-4 times :/

@RVonE said:

I like Mass Effect 1 a hell of a lot more than its successors. While the combat system is somewhat clunky, I still had a ton of fun with it because of all the modifications and weapon types you could use. Also, the way the combat handles in ME1 reminds me more of other WRPGs whereas ME2 and ME3 remind me of other shooters.

The Mako was weird, but I never had the kind of trouble other people keep talking about. If I wanted to go somewhere I just moved the Mako forward and jumped over obstacles. Piece of cake. Blasting fools with that thing wasn't always a great experience, though.

Inventory could become cumbersome if you're a hoarder. But, really, all it took was some mental capacity to memorize some basic properties related to types of items. You actually had to manage things yourself. But yeah, that could have been better--like the way inventory was handled in Dragon Age: Origins. Those guys knew what they were doing.

That said, I can understand that people don't like the systems in place in ME1, but when it comes to the characters, the story and story-telling, there is no doubt in my mind that Mass Effect 1 is superior to its successors.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

@rjayb89 said:

She's a really bad voice actor. You'd think it was easy with everyone in Mass Effect but she proved that there are bad voice actors.

I completely forgot she was in the game. But her bad voice acting was the first thing that I noticed when I talked to her character. She reminds me of a character in Heavy Rain that also had a terrible voice actress. Makes you appreciate real actors doing the voices. Please never do this again, Bioware.

@Zleunamme said:

Javik is a cool character. It was fun bring him and Liara to the salarian home world to pick up the female krogan. I still think that Javik's story is too integral to the main story for him to be sold as a DLC character. I'm surprised that there hasn't been much of an uproar about the number of party members being cut to half. After replaying Mass Effect 2. ME3 is shorter game. I guess Bioware was counting on multiplayer to fill in for time.

I recently bought the game and I don't have Javik. It's impossible for me to say what I'm missing since I never had him in the first place, but 10 hours in and the game is seriously lacking integral party members. I almost always pick Garrus and Liara, and I don't even care that much for Liara. It's weird to go from ME2, with so many good characters that it was hard to choose between them, to ME3 and so few I have to take the same two everytime. EDI just says a bunch of obvious things instead of being blunt like a computer would be and James don't say much at all. So yeah, making a supposedly integral character DLC was not what this game needed.

Sweden here.

@forkboy said:

Moving away from the whole discussion about real world shit, mainly becauser I'm British & we have our own cunty bankers to revile as immoral, greedy & generally awful so I'm not in a position to talk about Bank of America. Back to videogames.

I didn't catch the name of the guy, because I wanted to read everything before commenting & saying "there's no coherent argument for X" when you haven't read everything is a bit...potential for embarassment. But someone wrote a great post on the wrong-doings of Activision. And I'm just not sure why they are suddenly not worse than EA. EA has it's staple sports titles out every year, often monopolising licences & so cut-off the market in NFL games or NCAA football games, whatever, & that really sucks. But they are putting out new games, taking risks. Activision are doing what Activision have done for quite some time, take a franchise that gets big & milk it for every penny until the well goes dry (awful mixing up of metaphors, I'm sorry).

So why, if videogame fans were going to be so angry with a company are they angry with EA more than Activision? I just don't get it? Is it all off the back of Mass Effect 3? I still haven't played it, have somehow managed to avoid spoilers about the ending (except I know it can never be as awful as the hype as made it out to be, so thanks internet, you'll probably help me enjoy it more), but this reaction over one game seems disproportionate even by the silly standards set by the internet.

I think you answered the question yourself. Activision just milks their franchises to death. EA on the other hand undermines the competition through business deals instead of making better games. They have the exclusive rights to Porsche in racing games, so no other racing game for more than a decade has featured Porsche except Forza. Forza eventually lost Porsche but got it back again through business deals. And it's a lot like that with many other licenses and car models. If a new and exciting car isn't in Forza or Gran Turismo, chances are that EA have the exclusive rights to it.

Maybe Activision shit on their own fans. But EA shit on everyone.

Playing Duke Nukem Forever on the PS3. Why? Because there's a tradition among my friends to give eachother crappy games for our birthdays. They knew I would hate DNF, so that's what I got. Now I have to play through it.

Duke Nukem Forever, unfortunately. I'm having a fucking awful time with it and the PS3 is my last choice when it comes to playing FPSs. It's agony and I want to kill myself.